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“East Jesus” update
A quick note to say that we’re back at work at producing East Jesus, Nevada for your reading enjoyment! The first of three novels in what I’m calling “the Ronin series of Westerns,” the book features the adventures of W. W. Ronin, an ex-Episcopal priest who leaves his chosen profession to embrace the excitement and adventure of the American West. In East Jesus, Nevada, children are missing from a Carson City Indian school as well as a nearby encampment of Indians at Washoe Lake. …
Chapter 39 of “East Jesus, Nevada” on its way to the editor
Ronin settled down into a chair next to the piano player. While he wasn’t a big fan of piano music, he had noticed in his travels that few people will shoot a good piano player, or even a bad one if he’s attached to his instrument. Folks hadn’t spent enough time in church, he figured, otherwise they’d be shooting more musicians. The former Reverend smiled as he leaned back in his chair to observe.
A word from my publicist
The daughter of a Native American wise man goes missing from a white man’s Christian Gospel Mission, and two fast friends—brought together by passion and persistence during Nevada’s 1880s western expansion—are hell-bent on finding her, and possibly others.
An excerpt from my new western novel, “East Jesus, Nevada”
“Ronin hated crowds and generally didn’t go to town if he could avoid it. If nature abhors a vacuum, he recalled Ralph Waldo Emerson having said once, he hated whatever the opposite of a vacuum was. People-filled rooms, busy stages and train stations all made him uncomfortable. It was a control thing. He wasn’t about to let life take him anywhere again, as his father’s anywhere had turned out to be so damn painful. And his own experience in the …